Roger Hecht wrote: >>It's interesting this pairing of Mahler and Bruckner as if they were >>brothers. They were very different composers. Chris Bonds wrote: >Oh, very much agreed. I hope I didn't give the impression that I >personally was lumping them together. I wasn't thinking of you, just to a common impression. >I get the impression that there's some consensus that Furtwaengler was >"the" Bruckner conductor, but there is no consensus as to "the" Mahler >conductor. Maybe some would mention Bernstein in that context, others >Klemperer--but I don't see a consensus there. Klemperer. There's one whom I like equally in Bruckner and Mahler--what he did anyway-- though, commercially, at least, I think he recorded more Bruckner. Roger Hecht